The 23 best things to do in Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
Rome is such an ancient and dense place that prioritizing which attractions to visit can be an overwhelming task. How do...
Quartiere San Lorenzo
Quartiere San Lorenzo, 00185 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
This working-class neighborhood near Termini station first gained international prominence when Soho House opened their Rome outpost there last year....
Baths of Caracalla
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
The Baths of Caracalla were a massive public bathing complex built in the third century. Throughout the year, the site is open during the day for...
Pigneto
Pigneto, Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
Pigneto is popular with Italian college students and twenty- and thirty-somethings who frequent the bars on the "Isola," a pedestrianized stretch of...
Testaccio market
Via Aldo Manuzio, 66b, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
This market in one of Rome's most bustling central neighborhoods has all the usual suspects: bread bakeries, produce stalls, fishmongers, butchers,...
National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo
Largo di Villa Peretti, 2, 00185 Roma RM, Italy
The Palazzo Massimo's building itself was built by Jesuits in the late 19th century and was only turned into a state-owned museum in 1980. It's next...
Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Piazza di Santa Maria in Trastevere, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
There are hundreds of churches in Rome, but Santa Maria in Trastevere is one of the most breathtaking. Not only are the mosaics and gilded ceiling...
Le Domus Romane di Palazzo Valentini
Foro Traiano, 85, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
The Domus Romane are ancient Roman villas and other structures that were abandoned in antiquity, filled in with debris, and inadvertently used as...
Basilica Parrocchiale Santa Maria del Popolo
Piazza del Popolo, 12, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
Santa Maria del Popolo is a Renaissance church at the edge of Piazza del Popolo and just within Rome's 3rd-century walls. It was decorated during...
Vicus Caprarius-the Water City
Vicolo del Puttarello, 25, 00187 Roma RM, Italy
This museum takes you beneath the Trevi district, through an intricate maze of ancient vestiges to the archaeological ruins of Vicus Caprarius (which...
Janiculum Hill
via Garibaldi, Salita di Sant'Onofrio, 00165 Roma RM, Italy
This is a leisurely stroll beginning in Trastevere and winding up via Garibaldi to the top of Janiculum Hill. The mood changes from urban at the...
Villa Farnesina
Via della Lungara, 230, 00165 Roma RM, Italy
The Villa was the private residence of Agostino Chigi, one of the Renaissance's richest men; he liked to showcase his wealth by hiring artists to...
Campagna Amica Market
Via di S. Teodoro, 74, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Despite being Rome's largest farmers market, the Mercato di Campagna Amica remains down to earth and not at all corporate—as demonstrated by the fact...
Domus Aurea
Via della Domus Aurea, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
A sprawling palatial pavilion built by emperor Nero in the 1st century that will blow you away with the design taste and command of concrete and space...
Basilica of Saint Praxedes
Via di Santa Prassede, 9/a, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
The San Zeno Chapel is a small chapel and major pilgrimage destination inside the church of Santa Prassede (aka Saint Praxedes). The church, chapel,...
Church of God the Merciful Father
Piazza Largo Terzo Millennio, 8, Via Francesco Tovaglieri, 194, 00155 Roma RM, Italy
Chiesa di Dio Padre Misericordioso, also known as the Jubilee Church, was designed by American architect Richard Meier as part of the Vatican's grand...
Palatine Hill
Palatine Hill, 00186 Rome, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, Italy
The Palatine Hill is a big, sprawling open-air museum. There are emperors' palaces, manicured gardens, medieval churches, and a terrace overlooking...
Capitoline Museums
Piazza del Campidoglio, 1, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Home to one of the finest collections of ancient sculpture in Rome (and therefore the world), the Capitoline Museums are—weirdly—rarely crowded. They...
Sistine Chapel
00120, Vatican City
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna, the...
MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art
Via Guido Reni, 4a, 00196 Roma RM, Italy
MAXXI is the kind of place you go to spend half a day, with no plans other than to take the entire place in. Designed by Zaha Hadid, this is Rome’s...
Chiesa di Santa Maria della Scala
Piazza della Scala, 23, 00153 Roma RM, Italy
Entering this ancient apothecary, the oldest in Europe, feels a little like stepping back in time. You enter through the ground floor of the building,...
Colosseum
Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy
If you know the background of the building, a visit to the Colosseum will be truly amazing and totally live up to the hype. The place was used for...
Villa Doria Pamphili
Via di S. Pancrazio, 00152 Roma RM, Italy
Rome's largest public park is divided into manicured gardens, stretches of forest, pine groves, and bits of wild vegetation. There are wide open...
Doria Pamphili Gallery
Via del Corso, 305, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
This museum houses Rome's largest private collection, a trove assembled by the Doria, Pamphilj, Landi, and Aldobrandini families and brought together...
St. Ivo alla Sapienza
Corso del Rinascimento, 40, 00186 Roma RM, Italy
Most artists and architects working in the characteristically ornate and emotional Baroque style leaned heavily on color and materials to create...